[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
- From: John McCreery <mccreery@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:34:04 +0900
On 2005/06/07, at 21:23, Phil Enns wrote:
> Julie's confusion lies in equating 'power' with what the
> individuals are
> physically able to do.
Phil's blowing smoke consists of (1) equating power with legal
authority and (2) insisting that "right" has no meaning different
from power in this sense. Like Tweedledee and Tweedledum he can make
his words mean whatever he chooses. He must, however, IMHO produce an
account of revolutions in which revolutionaries are not legally
empowered to make the demands for whose sake they overturn a regime,
yet, nonetheless, appeal to their "right" to do so and achieve their
objectives without the exercise of "power" in clearly extralegal senses.
John McCreery
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